Below you will find a list of all the strategies and tools that you learned in this class. I will also be adding new strategies periodically, many of which will support the integration of writing instruction into your lessons.
Each strategy or tool has a link to an online resource or an uploaded file attached to it. Many have blank templates that you can print out, which is great, but I always encourage you to modify a strategy or tool to make it work best for you and your students. Good luck!
IN PROGRESS.....
ABC Brainstorming This brainstorming method can be used to activate prior knowledge or assess learning.
Annolighting This close reading method combines effective highlighting with marginal annotations that help to explain the highlighted words and phrases.
Bingo Bingo can be used in many ways, such as review, vocabulary development, cloze practice, ice breaker, etc.
Bookmarks This strategy provides students with a purpose for reading and can include any skill (main idea, character identification, quotation analysis, etc.)
Clarifying Tables These are used for deep processing of vocabulary and key terms
General Literacy Sites and Strategy Links
Here are some links to literacy sites that may help you in your quest to improve literacy instructions:
http://www.literacymatters.com/
http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/contlit.htm
http://www.ncrel.org/litweb/adolescent/strategies.php
http://www.xenia.k12.oh.us/library/literacy_strategies.pdf
Below you will find a list of all the strategies and tools that you learned in this class. I will also be adding new strategies periodically, many of which will support the integration of writing instruction into your lessons.
Each strategy or tool has a link to an online resource or an uploaded file attached to it. Many have blank templates that you can print out, which is great, but I always encourage you to modify a strategy or tool to make it work best for you and your students. Good luck!
IN PROGRESS.....
ABC Brainstorming
This brainstorming method can be used to activate prior knowledge or assess learning.
Annolighting
This close reading method combines effective highlighting with marginal annotations that help to explain the highlighted words and phrases.
Anological Guide/Morphemic Analysis/Feature Analysis
Using word analysis and word comparisons to develop vocabulary knowledge.
Anticipation Guide
Helps to activate prior knowledge and focus students on the key elements of the reading
APPARTS
An analytical tool for identifying the author, place & time, prior knowledge, audience, reason, main idea, and significance of a document.
Barometer/Spectrum
A modified debate strategy
Bingo
Bingo can be used in many ways, such as review, vocabulary development, cloze practice, ice breaker, etc.
Bookmarks
This strategy provides students with a purpose for reading and can include any skill (main idea, character identification, quotation analysis, etc.)
Clarifying Tables
These are used for deep processing of vocabulary and key terms
Close Reading/Marking the Text/Post-its
Cloze
CODE (Connect, Organize, Deep Process, Exercise)
(Template)
Collaborative Questions
Compare/Contrast: Discovering Patterns (Text to Text/Text to Self/Text to World)
(Make your own templates)
Concept Cards/Concept Mapping
Concept Ladder
Content Brainstorming
Cornell Notes
(instructional template)
Cubing
(Model Lesson)
Dense Questioning
Discussion Web
(Template)
Double-Entry Notes/Journals
(Template)
DR-TA (Directed Reading-Thinking Activity
Entry/Admit Slips
Exit Slips
FQR Chart (Fact, Question, Response)
Frayer Model
GIST (Generating Interactions b/t Schemata and Text)
(Another Approach)
Graphic Notes
Graphic Organizers
Guided Imagery
Here and Now
Hot Seat
Inference Notes
Inquiry – I-Charts
Insert Notes
Interactive Notebook
Interactive Notes
Jigsaw
KWL (Know/Want to Know/Learned)
Learning Logs/Journals
LINK (List Inquire Note Know)
List-Group-Label
LRD (Listen-Read-Discuss)
Mail Grams
Morphemic Analysis
Most Important Word…
Notetaking (all types with templates)
Opinion-Proof
OPTIC (Overview, Parts, Title, Inference, Conclusion)
ParaphPhony Document Strategy
PLAN (Predict, Locate, Add, Note)
PORPE (Predict, Organize, Rehearse, Practice, Evaluate)
Predict-O-Gram
PreP (Pre-Reading Plan)
Pre-Reading Notes
Probable Passage
Process Notes
Q-Notes
QAR (Question Answer Relationship)
Question/It says…/I say…/and so…
Questions Game
RAFT (Role, Audience, Format, Topic)
Reader's Theatre
REAP (Read, Encode, Annotate, Ponder)
Reciprocal Notes
Reciprocal Teaching
Worksheet
Save the Last Word for Me…
Say Something
Scales (Likert/Semantic Differential)
Semantic Feature Analysis
Send-A-Problem
Silent Notes/Think Silently
Six Hats
(Templates)
Sketch-to-Stretch
SOAPS (Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker, Significance)
SPAWN (Special Powers, Problem Solving, Alternative Viewpoints, What If, Next)
SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review)
SQRQCQ (Survey, Quest, Read, Quest, Compute, Quest)
Story Impressions
Storyboards
SWBS (Somebody Wanted But So)
Synetics (metaphor, comparison, analogy, classification)
TAG (Textbook Activity Guide)
Tea Party/Open House
Text Highlighting (not with a pen…)
Text Reformulation
Text Structure Analysis
THIEVES (Title, Headings, Introduction, etc.)
Think-Pair-Share
Think Aloud
Three-Level Reading Guides
Tic-Tac-Toe
Tiered Assignments
TOAST (Test, Organize, Anchor, Say, Test)
Transactional Reading Journal
Treasure Hunt/Scavenger Hunt
Vocabulary Activities
Vocabulary/Word Sorts
VSPP (Verbatim Split Page Procedure)
WebQuests
Word Splash
Word Study